Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the phrase political economy has had contradictory meanings. Sometimes it was viewed as an area of study (the interrelationship between economics and politics) while at other times it was viewed as a methodological approach. Even the methodological approach was divided into two parts the economic approach (often called public choice) emphasizing individual rationality and the sociological approach where the level of analysis tended to be institutional. In this Handbook, we view political economy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands. [download]
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